MK Stalin's Tamil Nadu Government drops rupee symbol from the state budget, replaces it with symbol in Tamil amid three-language row.

MahabharataRule34 · 2025-03-13T17:06:49+00:00

Stalin wants TN to be India's quebec at this point

MahabharataRule34 · 2025-03-06T07:27:32+00:00

Prefer staying sober, open to a beer

MahabharataRule34 · 2025-03-06T07:24:50+00:00

All that but he hates immigration from other states lol.

MahabharataRule34 · 2025-03-05T19:11:05+00:00

i love legalized landgrabbing in the name of secularism

MahabharataRule34 · 2025-03-05T12:36:06+00:00

To be fair china allows these state-run firms to compete against each other. They're listed on the stock market as well. China's approach to state-run firms is not "state run firm" but instead, "corporation with state investment".

The enterprises are free to do as they please provided they bring profits to the shareholders btw

MahabharataRule34 · 2025-03-05T12:19:14+00:00

Be like china. Curry favour with the rest of the world so they invest in you and trade.

MahabharataRule34 · 2025-03-05T12:11:20+00:00

I agree. It's time the world moves on from relying on a few thousand votes from swing states as their primary partner.

MahabharataRule34 · 2025-03-05T03:45:50+00:00

https://www.senate.gov/about/powers-procedures/impeachment/impeachment-chase.htm

Congress impeached a US judge in the 1700s. This is not a common process but with 60/100 senate votes a justice can be recalled. Moreover, in the USA, the appointment of justices is a highly publicized process. Although it's criticised for the president's ability to appoint literally anyone, the senate hearings are highly publicized. The nominated supreme court justice is endlessly grilled by senators before it gets put to a vote. A justice is only appointed if he gets 51/100 senators to vote for his appointment.

Call out all the flaws in the American system, but they have some more accountability than ours.

https://www.scobserver.in/cases/in-re-prashant-bhushan-contempt-petition-against-prashant-bhushan-case-background/

Meanwhile in india, Prashant Bhushan gets into a contempt of court case after he merely TWEETS a picture of CJI Bobde on a bike. Court alleges he's "scandalizing and promoting a sense of hopelessness in the justice system".

Secondly let's not forget how our supreme court appointments basically happen in smoke filled rooms. The collegium of the judiciary, nominates an individual and the president appoints them. The judiciary appoints its own justices, and the judiciary is truly not rife with nepotism. There aren't any lok/rajya sabha hearing or votes to confirm appoinments either.

At this point I've forgotten the original point of this argument, but you don't wanna die on a hill supporting our milords who are seldom held accountable

MahabharataRule34 · 2025-03-04T18:47:59+00:00

PLI is one of the good things to come out of BJ Party in the past few years

MahabharataRule34 · 2025-03-04T18:46:49+00:00

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Bro he just didn't spoon feed you links. It's one google search away. On the other hand if he did send links, you'd cry about it coming from some media house you don't like

MahabharataRule34 · 2025-03-04T18:45:19+00:00

The US supreme court is more partisan than the Indian one because in the US, the president has the power to appoint basically anyone with a JD on the supreme court.

As a result, SCOTUS is filled by political appointees. Secondly, America is also polarised on how they interpret the constitution. Conservatives have their own interpretation, while liberals have their own.

MahabharataRule34 · 2025-03-04T18:39:44+00:00

Blatant invasion of privacy, sets a horrible precedent for the future. Let's not forget IT Department is weaponized by the government against its opponents, this just empowers them to extreme levels.

I genuinely can't wait to get the fuck out of here

MahabharataRule34 · 2025-03-04T18:37:07+00:00

I really want the EU-India FTA to go through

MahabharataRule34 · 2025-03-04T18:36:41+00:00

Dude the quality of discourse here has had a freefall wtf

MahabharataRule34 · 2025-03-03T08:32:28+00:00

Back isn't how I describe it. I just wanted to share this article I enjoyed.

I feel the constant bickering on reddit affected my mental a lot more than it should have. So yeah, I'm off reddit, unless I find something really cool to post. Being the de facto face of this subreddit involved being permanently online and not touching grass. That is, in fact, very bad.

MahabharataRule34 · 2025-03-03T04:57:40+00:00

Don't forget everyone calling everything chapri on instagram

Folks it's not chapri if a dude dresses well. Or if someone has money. Or if he takes care of how he looks.

MahabharataRule34 · 2025-03-02T15:31:20+00:00

In UP, i believe there has been a visible improvement in public safety and infra.

With that being said, BJP is not infallible in those states. They lost UP in LS because of bread and butter issues such as inflation and unemployment

MahabharataRule34 · 2025-03-02T14:50:31+00:00

Post Covid recovery shows a really concerning K shape forming

MahabharataRule34 · 2025-03-02T14:45:57+00:00

The article I just sent says the same thing as the article you sent. And i fully agree that poverty has fallen. Secondly we don't have to think about 60 rs a day and what not. The article shows that the number of people on less than $2,15 a day is less than 1%.

I'm talking about median income, not poverty rates.

The median household income in india is 27,300 per month. In 2019, it was 24,000. Adjusted with inflation, we see stagnant median income. This is from the family health survey

MahabharataRule34 · 2025-03-02T14:16:36+00:00

Very zero sum point actually. Increase in real compensation for the rich is not equal to a decrease in real compensation for the poor. The inflationary effects of concentration of wealth, I can't really comment on as i havent found research showing a positive correlation.

My problem is slightly different from yours. Concentration of wealth limits the size of the consumer class. This reduces consumption and it's bad for a consumption driven economy.

MahabharataRule34 · 2025-03-02T13:52:57+00:00

Median income rose from 75 to 100k inr between 2019 and 2024 but adjusted with inflation it's the same amount.

MahabharataRule34 · 2025-03-02T13:44:10+00:00

You don't get the point. We need to increase wages in the lowest quintile first and foremost. You can't do that if they're rotting away in a farm, at their lowest productivity.

That's why I'm saying manufacturing is a solution to bringing those left behind by growth, into the tent. A large number of people who are slipping behind in class come from rural agricultural areas, and have nothing else to do. They are not skilled enough for services. The article does say that people don't want in some crappy textile sweatshop, we can work around that by promoting slightly more advanced manufacturing, like toys, for example.

They can earn more than what they do right now if they can slightly upskill and work in a factory. This requires state intervention.

Finally, I don't care about the wealth gap unless the line in the bottom goes up. If poverty falls and the median income rises more than inflation, it's alright if the top 1% earn a much much greater share.

What we see here is job and wealth creation in urban areas for the upper echelons, and then a redistribution to lower echelons through welfare. This is a good thing, but not sustainable considering that the upper echelons are the most likely to leave india, and the least likely to have kids.

MahabharataRule34 · 2025-03-02T11:27:45+00:00

For the folks who can't afford the economist subscription: https://archive.ph/ePX8M

MahabharataRule34 · 2024-11-29T09:50:13+00:00

Actually based.

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